Leprechaun

Leprechaun, a type of male faerie, they usually take the form of old men who enjoy partaking in mischief, with a mind for cunning. If anyone keeps an eye fixed upon one, he cannot escape, but the moment the eye is withdrawn he vanishes. The leprechaun originally had a different appearance depending on where in Ireland he was found. Yeats, in his 1888 book entitled Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry describes the leprechaun as ‘dressed in a red coat with seven rows of buttons’